For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen above to St Matthew Passion, a poem by John F Deane:
There is a storm tonight in Thomaskirche; Judas scuttles about, arms, like claws, reaching; at last he embraces the quiet Lord, and is embraced; the mobs, in chorus, agitated, rush like waves towards a shore, and out again...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.